First Post for White Rose Crafts Design Team!

Hello everyone, I am super excited to be part of the White Rose Crafts Design Team!  This store has some very unique items you just can't find in the USA! This week we are featuring Lemon Craft. This Polish company  make some beautiful papers!

Here is my layout - aren't the colors and papers just gorgeous! And for those of you who think you need special tools to distress I have a great tip down below. The base paper was so pretty I didn't want to hide the flowers so I took the wood grain paper and tore it to expose the flowers.

I love how the papers matched my granddaughters shirt!

 

 

Here I made a "Faux Flair" by cutting out a 1 inch circle and adding an epoxy circle to it. Also tucked some of the ephemera into the tears. The Lemoncraft Ephemera Sheets is a  perfect embellishment!

 

I love to get white flowers because then I can add color anyway I want to match my projects. On these flowers I just added some Glimmer Mist to give it a slight color and sparkle. It's hard to see in the photos but the flowers have a little bit a sparkle.

I lifted up the flowers  with some pop tabs and the butterflies I folded in half and just added a bit of glue down the body of the butterfly to adhere it.

Now for my tip. I never can find my distresser when I need it, and you don't need a special tool to distress edges.  I always have scissors laying everywhere on my desk it is just as easy to use them.  Just run your scissor blade along the edge to get the same effect.

 

 

Products Used:

 

                                   LemonCraft Gossamer Blue Collection 12"x12" Paper Set

LemonCraft Gossamer Blue Matching A4 Ephemera Sheet

Recollections Dimensional Paper Flowers - White, 12 pcs

Craft Creations Birds in Blossom Die-Cut Pop-Out Sheet

                                      Tim Holtz Distress Oxides Ink Pad - Broken China

                                         Other items, Burlap, epoxy dots, chipboard title, bling. Tim Holtz words

 

Thanks for stopping by

Donna Coughlin

 

 

Kaisercraft Sparkle! line

Hi, Donna here today for Inspiration Stations and I would like to share a fews things with you! The new Kaisercraft All that Glitters! line, how to use those Project Life Journaling cards on layouts and how to use sequins on scrapbooking projects. Here is a layout I did using the Kaisercraft line which can be found at Inspiration Station.
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The first thing I did was use some Tim Holtz Distress Spray in two corners, I used the Tattered Rose just to darken the pink a little and yellow to bring out the gold! Second I pulled out 7 journal cards and positioned them around the center of the page. This is so easy to do and you don't have to cut into a 12x12 sheet of paper. You know how gold and silver are all rage right now, I cut a circle for the picture using the Silhouette Cameo. Just a tip, I always cut speciality paper such as gold paper upside down, only because it seem to not rip the paper as much. If you look close enough the right hand corner of the frame did tear a bit, but that was OK because I could cover it up easily enough.

 

 

These cards are great! They match with the All That Glitters kit and no need to use up all your 12x12 cutting small pieces of paper!

 

Then I started adding lots of stickers from the kit and bits from the Die Cut Cardstock Pieces pack. To make it sparkle even more, I randomnly placed some sequins around the layout as well.

 

 

More sequin on the butterfly. Check out the tutorial video below to see how I add sequins in several different ways!

 

Sorry about my big clunky hands in my videos!

 

 

Products Used:

Kaisercraft All that Glitters collection and Die Cut Cardstock pieces, Shiny gold cardstock, Kaisercraft Sparkle Journal Cards, sequins, thread, Tim Holtz Distress Spray.

 

Thanks for stopping by

Donna

 

 

Football

Here is a layout I did using a sketch from My scraps and more Blog  I really love their sketches!

Here is my son playing football last year.  I used We R Memory Game Day, 7 Gypsies Paper, Tim Holtz Film Strip, Studio Calico cork, and Creative Imaginations Stickers

 And here is the inspiration for by layout the sketch by Ana Castro!

Thanks for stopping by today!

2-12-12 Tag/Technique/Question

Hello todays tag is all about Valentine's Day. The technique was to make your own flower which I used screening from a tour, paint, microbeads, and stickles. Use the Tim Holtz paper pack, K&Co Ephemera and some other small accessories, the question is "What are you grateful for today?"

Tim Holtz tags

I've been making a few Tim Holtz tags but I wanted to show you how I used other things to get the same effect and you don't have to use all Ranger products. I LOVE Ranger products and I love Tim Holtz, but lets face it, I can't afford to buy every product out there! Well I could if I my son didn't need new clothes every 3 months, that kid is growing like a weed.

I made these two tag using a lot of the same techniques that Tim had, but some differences are, I made the numbers and the stencil letters out of chipboard cut from the cricut and painted them.

Also if you don't have the same embellishments that Tim uses, use what you have. I had those metallic pointesettias instead of using charms like Tim did. I used paper leaves too instead of the charms.

My favorite trick was this. I didn't have the Tim stamp (the one used on the first tag below) so this is what I did. Found an image on the internet, saved it to my desktop, opened up Excel and inserted the image. You can use whatever program you are good at, Photoshop, etc. I resized it to fit the tag, and then printed it on light blue cardstock and then attached it to my tag. Once it is inked and grunged up you cannot even tell if it was a stamp or not.

Although you can't see the musical notes on the one set of numbers and the calendar I did the same thing. I don't stamp much and therefore don't have a lot of stamps but this is a great way to get the stamp effect without buying a stamp you are only going to use once.





Here is Tim's tag from 2009. I think mine looks pretty close to his, except that picture was my son when he was little, not a very good picture but my son was screaming about Santa! lol Funniest thing is Santa is his oldest brother!


Also use what you have and be creative. I found these metallic letters in my stash and some old stickers. With a little creative imagination, I bent back the pointy things in the back and added the sticker letters, and used Glossy Accents on top to give it a shiny appearance. Also used Glossy Accents to hold the ring in the back so I could attach it to a safety pin. I also added a jingle bell, thought it looked festive! - Get creative!

Here is another tag, looks better IRL. It's sort of a take on this years tag, but instead of the embossing folder, I took the idea he had a couple of years ago and used chipboard letters. For mine I used leftover letters and instead of his foil wrap I used plain old heavy duty Reynolds wrap. I took me a couple of times, because it kept ripping, but I found if I crumpled it a little then took a small tool with a round head to smooth it, it worked fine.



Also I don't buy tags, I use chipboard and cut my own. Sometimes I cover them in cardstock if needed, and I always cover the back with a pp that matches.

As you can see I really messed up so I ripped the paper off, and started over on the front. After I am done with the tag I add paper to the back - it 'neatens' up the tag.



I have one more tag I made, actually it turned out great, only problem is I took it to work on Wednesday and hung it up and never got a picture. Have to remember to take my camera tomorrow to work.